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@bittner@hachyderm.io @j9t@mas.to One time, CloudFlare did turn theirs into a DDoS platform aimed at them with that (by always demanding Origin: in subsequent requests, redirecting Origin:-less requests to the starting square). Nowadays, I think theirs also shows another horrible trend: it may be blank on browsers that support enough of it to run code that then fails with no visible sign. I see "Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue" with them, but I strongly prefer to browse with JS disabled, so that's why I at least get some text. These days, because Cloudflare only supports a handful of browsers, that means I just skip whatever site gives me that. Also: StackExchange is behind a Cloudflare check too now... sigh.

@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange It's really expected - they're just adhering to the hype that Generative Autocomplete can do all things humans do. If they were at least adopting it as a *tool* and not joining that specific hype, they'd be able to see that problem right away, or at least avoid it...

@confluency @nblr @pawv @NanoRaptor So when is Apple announcing these new Tetralobe battery cells for peripherals?

@alice@lgbtqia.space Some towns may end up having to do something like that anyway, as the Trump administration is probably going to hold a press conference any minute now on the new terrorist weapon that "hurts american interests", trash bags...

@techokami@woof.tech @christmastree@mastodon.social @f4grx@chaos.social @mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @jbz@indieweb.social @Solemarc@mastodon.social @wnd@fosstodon.org Thanks for the replies. I really didn't pay much attention to the image, just read the text, which, yes, sounded like a reference to The Onion. It's silly that so many people find a need to attach images to a text, as if it can't be published if it has no image, LLM/GenerativeAutocomplete-generated or not. Even without GenAI in the picture, not doing this would spare them from some embarrassing "here's a completely wrong/unrelated image" moments :-) And yes, that WARN column looks quite fishy. Hey, at least the red flag is highlighted in red! (Kinda reminds me of the Xerox scanning issue where glyphs could end up replaced with different ones. [1]) [1] https://enwp.org/JBIG2#Character_substitution_errors_in_scanned_documents

@joho@mastodon.online @skulesz@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Now if I were to comment on train travel... Portugal is lacking cross-border long-distance travel - some will insist this is because it's not "profitable" or "sustainable", but there's still no night train out of Lisbon, nor some daytime Intercity-like service. IIRC there are currently two links, Celta (which could be described as a regional service, albeit labeled "International") and the regional Entroncamento-Badajoz (not considered "International"). Reportedly Renfe has had interest in extending services to Lisbon, and CP has had some degree of interest (or maybe it was preference?) in bringing back Sud. At the very least, a good night service would allow connecting with daytime higher-speed services once in Spain or France, and I seriously doubt it'd not have demand. Local travel isn't much better, part of the capital area has been for years with worse service on weekends and holidays, and besides less frequent services, this even includes a transfer with 23 minutes between trains in one direction of what is a route with high demand. There may currently be a shortage of rolling stock, but that doesn't explain the apparent slowness in putting long distance railcars back into service (there's reportedly a too big backlog of these, while Intercity services face high demand) or the above mentioned worse commuter service (the previous offering, much better, needed less rolling stock...). (A note re: .pt-.es cross-border travel, just in case anyone wonders about that: gauge is not the issue. ATP, electrification and certification are the stumbling blocks, but gauge has not been an issue for years with gauge changers and compatible rolling stock, including high-speed trainsets.)

@joho@mastodon.online @skulesz@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu A curious datapoint: back when there were price limits imposed on cell carriers for a migration towards no price differences when roaming, it resulted in Vodafone Portugal being cheaper to use abroad than within borders, because the pricing was *that* high. It was easy for me to understand the goal of these limits, yet it was also something that made it clear some prices were excessively high. Perhaps I could summarize that one as: not a problem with the measure, but an indication of another problem.

@mid_kid@fosstodon.org @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems IMHO speed/performance isn't the correct take from the source-based nature of gentoo, flexibility is (although it *is* possible to get performance improvements out of target-specific compilation). What in some other distributions might be a hard-coded choice that you must compile externally to change, in Gentoo might be just a USE flag, or even just a different package satisfying an alternative pseudo-package. But yeah, support for user-provided patches makes some hacking and testing even easier.

@MLE_online@social.afront.org Are they also into The Lone Gunmen? Not that I've ever been able to watch it, I've only had a peek once when it was airing on somebody else's TV a long long time ago. #XFiles #TheLoneGunmen

@inthehands@hachyderm.io A challenge is when will news outlets finally stop just boasting "de-escalating" every time ICE or other Trump administration officials say it, and start using the word only when there's something tangible, verifiable, true. But if I earned a dollar (adjust for inflation) by every time a news outlet got away with misinformation or misreporting because they were using the words which were originally said by some lying party... well, I'd be in a different tax bracket, I guess.

@SDF@social.sdf.org @SDF@social.sdfeu.org Any idea why SDFeu's gopher server has been down since (according to a bboard post) at least the end of March? #sdfeu #Gopher

@0x0cb9d119@akko.wtf Life would be much easier if it had a $HOME/.emacs. And a REPL.

@libreinator @davidrevoy Only for GNU rm, unless other implementations have added it. I guess this detail means GNU rm is not compatible with the spec.

@f4grx @dianea At least for me it was quick to see a realistic arrangement, after a couple seconds. So if it's generated, it's quite realistic IMHO.

@gnoll110@ruby.social @dianea@lgbtqia.space Now is this an overflow or a two-element linked list? :-P

@kkarhan@infosec.space @wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe @OS1337@infosec.space IMHO ed's usefulness isn't really dependent on the kind of terminal device. I often use it with X11 terminal emulators :-)

@catsalad@infosec.exchange DeLorean Grid Array

@tante@tldr.nettime.org @glitzersachen@hachyderm.io @plup360@mastodon.social Did I miss something while reading or that article doesn't even mention the issue of ionizing radiation in computing machinery, or the possible costs of rad-hardened hardware? Might be especially relevant for something which seems to require massive computing power and which deals with massive amounts of data.

@merc@techhub.social @mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org ... I guess that if I need to step outside I'll try to stay close to banks with vaults.

@wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe "Worldwide tariff", hmm... Why do I feel we're going to see a surge of interest in space exploration? :-P

@anna@mathstodon.xyz Besides outrageous, that doesn't even logically compute. Were they fishing for a disagreement?

@pmjv I'd not be surprised if the most commonly used one out there was the padlock, sometimes used to illustrate the value of "only trust the site if there's a padlock in the address bar" and similar guidelines.

@europeanspodcast@mastodon.social @derrockwolf@layer8.space How does it work to keep timestamps stable, does it feature a gap instead of the ad? (Or gaps along with ads, for ads of different sizes)

@davidrevoy @nekoplanet Oh it was noticed. It made my day! Thanks!

@f4grx@chaos.social @mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @jbz@indieweb.social @techokami@woof.tech @Solemarc@mastodon.social @wnd@fosstodon.org What does say it's GenAI slop? It's a site known for that or the like?

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run @delta_vee@cosocial.ca @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange Wouldn't that be likely to show up in the user-agent somehow?

@jgoerzen@floss.social @jgoerzen@changelog.complete.org on a more recent (but still not recent enough for me to be confident this hasn't changed recently) kernel than my previous attempts, setterm --blank=Y still triggers DPMS after Y minutes in the virtual console. I'm not sure I'll be able to check it soon, but I'll see if I can test newer kernels for this. GPU is nVidia with nouveau.

@jgoerzen BTW, I just noticed that in my notes from when I had to start setting consoleblank in some system (possibly from c. 2019--2020?), I have this: «Despite what the commit message regarding this change [1] says, consoleblank *does* trigger DPMS. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a4199f5eb8096d63828f7333fa45650a7b0a99ed » But it's likely I was missing something else that happened to make this also trigger DPMS. Notes also say "setterm --blank" seem to change the same value for all VTs, or at least triggers the same behaviour I was looking for.

@maartje@blahaj.social CP.pt: [keys 'service concluded' and locks doors, train departs stop ahead of schedule] ... wait, there is a timetable? we can't just depart when done with boarding!!? (Yes, CP trains can also arrive early)

@jbz@indieweb.social Sometimes the smartphone world makes me really want to wipe the thing and figure out a way to install Windows 98. (No, really, the way I see it, there are way too many things - at least in Android - that are a step backwards compared to Windows 98, and I'm aware that system is far from flawless (and that a non-locked-down UNIX-like system would be much better)... but at least you could install what you wanted to, you could access the whole filesystem, and you didn't need system changes to access application data).)

@jgoerzen You mean now e.g. setting consoleblank=X will really just produce a black screen after X seconds? (I don't think this is related to dri and kms, at least not only that. I'd have to check but I think some of the setups of mine where the linux virtual console could trigger screen sleep with older versions were using dri and kms? I had to do a hardware change and getting this set up was one of the things I've been postponing. Maybe I should look into this soon...)

@D3codes@mas.to @splorp@mastodon.social @paulrickards@mastodon.social Non-8-bit-clean Mac stacking :-P

@sous_mon_masque @tommorris @missbullitt I'm now imagining a piece titled "Is Model M the Ultimate LART?" in El Reg's BOFH section.

@jonossaseuraava@eliitin-some.fi I think the usual advice really is to image ASAP. But you do need a target filesystem large enough to hold the resulting image. But also: what is the I/O error, any chance this could be something else? What does SMART say?

@cmconseils@mastodon.social [Allow this cookie]

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Strange that this hasn't reached alt.folklore.computers yet :-D

@jwz@mastodon.social Is this coming from the same people who apparently think you can just ship data center hardware to space, ignoring both heat dissipation and ionizing radiation? And: I'd say picking a hot location for such a thing does look a lot like a scam... that they've only proposed that because they don't intend to go ahead with it.

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de "Insert another catchy slogan here" (not my own work, though, saw it somewhere else)

@wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA what the [Finnish swearing] is this :-D *sigh* the internet

@mikemcquaid@mastodon.social This is the same Google which is so uncapable of handling SPAM that they ended their USENET peering instead of curbing abuse of Google Groups for advertising.

@ciaran@mcnulty.social @saramg@fosstodon.org It does sound unusual that they'd run ads specifically for this without some event to tie it into.

@HoSnoopy@m.efg-ober-ramstadt.de @jonossaseuraava@eliitin-some.fi It could be something other than the disk being broken, I suppose a bad cable, a bad I/O controller, a motherboard issue, and the like could all cause errors, the problem being that dd AFAIK isn't really suitable for an operation where errors happen.

@Haste I swear that the banana republic keeps finding new amazing ways to surprise me every damn day (although yes, not that surprising, coming from the current SCOTUS). Will there even be elections in November?

@maartje@blahaj.social What, they don't offer 10base-2?

@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe now that's a suitable contender to replace 'read mail really fast'

@EsquerdaNet@masto.pt Fizeram outsourcing da "cibersegurança" ao Twitter ou quê? (O Twitter há uns tempos não tinha feito algo semelhante na aproximação a eleições em França?) Ao menos essa "política de proxy" é interna à marinha ou às FAP ou é como o que há nalguns hospitais, que parece ser feito por entidade distinta, estrangeira? É que isso seria sempre, digamos, "um risco" no "atual ambiente estratégico de competição geopolítica", portanto espero que não seja o caso.